# It's time for gay reparations. So what do you guys want? Money, 40 acres & a mule... what? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452 "2010-08-06T21:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/1 "2010-08-06T21:18:47Z")
[So now it’s-time for gay reparations](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/08/06/liberal-talk-show-host-thom-hartmann-says-it-s-time-gay-reparations). What the heck do you want? How about an apology? Sorry about all that y’know… faggot and dyke stuff’, and beating you up, and calling you perverts, and disowning you. We were kind of stressed, and in a bad place, and all that. So… we’re good right?.. No? Well what do you want? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/2 "2010-08-06T21:25:07Z")
What kind of proof do you want that someone is gay? Because I sure wouldn’t mind 40 acres in the grassy plains of say Oklahoma or Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/3 "2010-08-06T21:34:11Z")
They already got the Entertainment Industry, the Fashion Industry and the use of Portia De Rossa when she was hot. They got theirs. _slitted eyes_ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/4 "2010-08-07T05:16:51Z")
We want the national anthem to come out in a 25 minute dance version. ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/5 "2010-08-07T05:33:35Z")
Equality might be a good start. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/6 "2010-08-07T05:49:00Z")
My partner and I would have gotten married almost 23 years ago, but we weren’t allowed (and still aren’t). I think a cool million per year would suffice. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/7 "2010-08-07T05:49:39Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > We want the national anthem to come out in a 25 minute dance version. Would you settle for it just coming out? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/8 "2010-08-07T06:00:19Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > They already got the Entertainment Industry, the Fashion Industry and the use of Portia De Rossa when she was hot. > They got theirs. _slitted eyes_ Waitwaitwait - Portia de Rossi is no longer hot? When did this happen? I refuse to believe it. There would have been a memo. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/9 "2010-08-07T06:05:41Z")
I’ll settle for the public whipping of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Feel free to throw in the right to marry if you like. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/10 "2010-08-07T13:17:57Z")
Is this gonna be like the Native Americans thing where if I can claim 1/64th gay I get a card & some benefits? Because if so I predict a lot of people are suddenly going to be real proud to have a gay ancestor and be part gay themselves. If every American who claims to be part Cherokee really was, there’d have had to have been more Cherokee than buffalo on the plains of the Old West. Odd that. Heck, if the goal was to fully socially legitimize gayness (a worthy goal IMO), then something like this might be just the ticket. Gosh knows the hard right seems to have no principle they won’t violate for a bit of money. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/11 "2010-08-07T16:49:16Z")
Whoa whoa whoa…I’ve got me a black president in office, and _I_ haven’t gotten any reparations, yet! You people get in line! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/12 "2010-08-07T16:52:22Z")
40 Acres and Zac Efron. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/13 "2010-08-07T16:56:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 40 Acres and Zac Efron. Is ‘40 Acres’ a new kind of lube I haven’t heard about? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/14 "2010-08-07T17:04:18Z")
Haha… How bout legalizing gay marriage? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/15 "2010-08-07T17:40:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Is this gonna be like the Native Americans thing where if I can claim 1/64th gay I get a card & some benefits? > > Because if so I predict a lot of people are suddenly going to be real proud to have a gay ancestor and be part gay themselves. > > If every American who claims to be part Cherokee really was, there’d have had to have been more Cherokee than buffalo on the plains of the Old West. Odd that. > > Heck, if the goal was to fully socially legitimize gayness (a worthy goal IMO), then something like this might be just the ticket. Gosh knows the hard right seems to have no principle they won’t violate for a bit of money. Doesn’t having a gay ancestor cast some doubt on the gayness of the ancestor? Hm. Bit of a catch 22, this. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/16 "2010-08-07T20:05:32Z")
If possible I’d like for my 40 acres to include an acre or two of Dupont Circle, an acre or two of Midtown Atlanta, and other bits and pieces of metro areas. I’d be appreciative of 40 acres in the Salt Flats I suppose but like all those Beatles “collector plates” I got as gifts I really wouldn’t know what to do with them. > [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Doesn’t having a gay ancestor cast some doubt on the gayness of the ancestor? Hm. Bit of a catch 22, this. [Eh](http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/html/images/objects/1597_lg.jpg), [not](http://westendwhingers.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/oscar-wilde-and-lord-alfred-douglas-bosie.jpg) [necessarily](http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/upload/5/5a/Yussupov.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/17 "2010-08-07T21:11:23Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Doesn’t having a gay ancestor cast some doubt on the gayness of the ancestor? Hm. Bit of a catch 22, this. I dunno- my mom’s gay and I sort of exist. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/18 "2010-08-07T21:42:41Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Doesn’t having a gay ancestor cast some doubt on the gayness of the ancestor? Hm. Bit of a catch 22, this. “Wives for duty, boys for pleasure” goes back to Ancient Greece at least AIUI, and while modern-day homosexuality’s got little in common with pederasty, the principle’s still sound. A lesbian _can_ spread 'em and think about redecorating the ceiling while she’s collecting some sperm, a gay lord can resign himself to having to go through all that disgusting business again with Her Ladyship for the sake of an heir and a spare. Your heart may not be in it, but your reproductive system isn’t too bothered. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/19 "2010-08-07T22:16:31Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > We want the national anthem to come out in a 25 minute dance version. “Oh, Canada” as a 25 minute dance version? We know you don’t want toasters, you probably all have far too many toasters. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452/20 "2010-08-07T22:28:04Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > … > > Because if so I predict a lot of people are suddenly going to be real proud to have a gay ancestor and be part gay themselves. > > Doesn’t having a gay ancestor cast some doubt on the gayness of the ancestor? Hm. Bit of a catch 22, this. Actually I was thinking along the lines of “Well, my uncle who had no kids was gay so I guess that makes me …”. But as others have pointed out already, plenty of gay folks make babies, both in ancient times and in recent. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-gay-reparations-so-what-do-you-guys-want-money-40-acres-a-mule-what/549452.md?page=2)